William Wilkins
Life 1852-1915; b. Zante, in Greece, ed. Dundalk Grammar Sch. and TCD; Headmaster of High School, Dublin, where W. B. Yeats was one of his pupils; published
Songs of Study (1881) [var. 1891]. TAY
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Reference Seamus Deane, gen. ed., The Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991), Vol. 2, gives bio-data as supra (p.972, n.6).
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Notes Anglo-Irish: Wilkins, with Dowden and G. A. Greene, is one of the poets whose claim to Irishness are disparaged by D. P. Moran in his editorial (The Leader, 22 Dec. 1900) attacking Stopford Brooke and Rollestons Treasury of Irish Poetry (1900)
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